#ode

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#between #classical #defeated #evil #good

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#father #hero #him #i #like

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#biggest #biggest problems #bring #failure #feminist

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#business model #copyright #model #napster #violation

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #commercial #display #government #helplessness

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#because #best #blame #constitutes #countries

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#haiti #i #model #rebuilding #rwanda

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comes #computer #fame #faster #guy